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'In two I'll slice the hair-seat / of Helga's kiss-gulper'In this epic tale from the Viking Age that ranges across Scandinavia and Viking Britain, two poets compete for the love of Helga the Fair - with fatal consequences.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for...
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Penguin
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2015-02-26
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Simple Forms is a study of popular or folk literature in the medieval period. Focusing both on the vast body of oral literature that lies behind the written texts which have survived from the medieval period and on the popular literature provided by literate authors for...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-02-26
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In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey take a different approach to Dante, by examining the main themes and issues that run through all of his work, ranging from autobiography, to understanding God and the order of the universe.In doing so,...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-02-26
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In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey take a different approach to Dante, by examining the main themes and issues that run through all of his work, ranging from autobiography, to understanding God and the order of the universe.In doing so,...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-02-26
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Strange Meetings provides a highly original account of the War Poets of 1914-1918, written through a series of actual encounters, or near-encounters, from Siegfried Sassoon's first, blushing meeting with Rupert Brooke over kidneys and bacon at Eddie Marsh's breakfasts...
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Vintage Digital
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2015-02-26
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'Can I bear to leave these blue hills?'A generous selection from three of the greatest and most enjoyable of Chinese poets Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin...
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Penguin
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2015-02-26
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'...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.'Some of the most macabre and wonderful of all Chinese stories, including 'The Golden Goblet', 'Scorched Moth the Daoist' and 'The Black Beast'Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th...
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Penguin
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2015-02-26
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Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Britain offers a new account of women's engagement in the poetic and political cultures of seventeenth-century England and Scotland, based on poetry that was produced and circulated in manuscript. Katherine Philips is...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-02-26
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Statues of Thomas Hooker and Samuel Stone grace downtown Hartford, Connecticut, but few residents are aware of the distinctive version of Puritanism that these founding ministers of Harford's First Church carried into to the Connecticut wilderness (or indeed that the...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-02-25
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This is the first book-length study of early modern English approaches to Medea, the classical witch and infanticide who exercised a powerful sway over literary and cultural imagination in the period 1558-1688. It encompasses poetry, prose and drama, and translation,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-02-24
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Dieses Buch enthält den Variantenapparat zu den vier Minnereden, die nicht nur in der Wiener Handschrift überliefert sind («Der Krautgarten», «Die Minne vor Gericht», «Die Beichte einer Frau», «Die Best«Die Beständige und die Wankelmütige») und ein Wörterbuch, das den...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-02-20
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This book explores the extent to which four sensation novelists responded to the Victorian theorizing of professionalism. A crucial period of redefinition of the professional ideal, the third quarter of the nineteenth century also witnessed the rise and the decline of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-02-20
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This book focuses on contemporary Nevada fiction as one of the most probing and intense literary explorations of the American West as a whole. Recent fictional representations of Nevada possess a revelatory value in relation to the whole West because they encompass some...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-02-20
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Translating audio description scripts from foreign into source language seems to be a tempting alternative strategy of creating audio description scripts in those countries where audio description is still scarce. This book presents the results of a three-stage study....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-02-20
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The book provides a lively discussion of the ways in which popular fiction appropriates the figure of the Provisional IRA activist and the political conflict within the north of Ireland. It looks at how authors’ recreations, or transformations, of Irish republicanism...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-02-20
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Through contemporary theories of cosmopolitanism and analyses of literary texts such as Heart of Darkness, Lilith's Brood, and Moby-Dick, this book explores the cosmopolitan impulses behind the literary imagination. Patell argues that cosmopolitanism regards human...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-02-19
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Jane Austen wrote when sociology was being established as the new discipline to understand social issues such as urbanization and industrialization. Drawing on landmark sociologists such as Durkheim and Bourdieu, this study argues that the novels of Austen were heavily...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-02-19
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English Psalms in the Middle Ages, 1300-1450 explores vernacular translation, adaptation, and paraphrase of the biblical psalms. Focussing on a wide and varied body of texts, it examines translations of the complete psalter as well as renditions of individual psalms and...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-02-19
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Seit den 1990er Jahren ist das Interesse am deutschsprachigen Afrika-Roman stetig gewachsen. Die germanistische literaturwissenschaftliche Forschung setzt sich daher zunehmend intensiv mit diesem Subgenre auseinander und reflektiert dabei den postkolonialen Diskurs. Die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-02-19
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The study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Harold Pinter’s dramatic discourse and focuses on the way power makes the characters play on the borders of linguistic, spatial, narrative and gender configurations. It examines the experimental nature of Harold Pinter’s...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-02-19
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